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<Lusitania is everything we need. And safe from human beings.>
But it also belongs to another people. I won't destroy the piggies just to atone for having destroyed your people.
<They're safe with us; we won't harm them. You know us by now, surely, after all these years.> I know what you've told me.
<We don't know how to lie. We've shown you our own memories, our own soul.>
I know you could live in peace with them. But could they live in peace with you?
<Take us there. We've waited so long.>
Ender walked to a tattered bag that stood unlocked in the corner. Everything he truly owned could fit in there-- his change of clothing. All the other things in his room were gifts from people he had Spoken to, honoring him or his office or the truth, he could never tell which. They would stay here when he left. He had no room for them in his bag.
He opened it, pulled out a rolled-up towel, unrolled it. There lay the thick fibrous mat of a large cocoon, fourteen centimeters at its longest point.
<Yes, look at us.>
He had found the cocoon waiting for him when he came to govern the first human colony on a former bugger world. Foreseeing their own destruction at Ender's hands, knowing him to be an invincible enemy, they had built a pattern that would be meaningful only to him, because it had been taken from his dreams. The cocoon, with its helpless but conscious hive queen, had waited for him in a tower where once, in his dreams, he had found an enemy. "You waited longer for me to find you," he said aloud, "than the few years since I took you from behind the mirror."
<Few years? Ah, yes, with your sequential mind you do not notice the passage of the years when you travel so near the speed of light. But we notice. Our thought is instantaneous; light crawls by like mercury across cold glass. We know every moment of three thousand years.>
"Have I found a place yet that was safe for you?"
<We have ten thousand fertile eggs waiting to be alive.> "Maybe Lusitania is the place, I don't know."
<Let us live again.>